Nearly all predictive modeling algorithms were way off in picking the winner of the presidential election. What went wrong can strike any predictive analytics project if data scientists and other analysts aren’t careful.

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http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/techtargets-weekly-roundup-215-222/#respondMon, 22 Feb 2016 15:32:55 +0000http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/?p=6158Data Centers image via Shutterstock Why are more data centers moving to Canada instead of staying in the United States? Find out in this week’s roundup. 1. Privacy, power concerns drive Canadian data center growth – Robert Gates (SearchDataCenter) One U.S. city has more data center space than all of Canada, but some data centers...

The Internet of Things once again dominates the agenda at RSA Conference 2016, but experts say there will be other hot topics, including the growing debate between IT and the government over encryption backdoors.

Major IT companies like Black Hat and Google spoke out against the proposed Wassenaar Arrangement rules for cybersecurity software, and those protests have caused the U.S. Dept. of Commerce to commit to drafting new rules.

HP’s Zero Day Initiative has disclosed four critical vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer that could lead to remote code execution, but mistakenly labeled them as affecting Windows desktop not Windows Phone.

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http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/techtargets-weekly-roundup-61-68/#respondMon, 08 Jun 2015 14:02:28 +0000http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/?p=6014HP image via Shutterstock Do you think HP is making a wise decision splitting into two? Find out in this week’s roundup. 1. HP Enterprise to focus on agility, efficiency after split – Robert Gates (SearchDataCenter) HP will soon be split into two, with an enterprise business that IT pros expect will deliver faster to...